Marc Wortman, PhD, is an independent historian and freelance journalist. He is the author of four books on American military and social history, most recently Admiral Hyman Rickover: Engineer of Power (Yale University Press, 2022), which was named a National Review Book of the Year and received an honorable mention for the John Lyman Award in biography from the North American Society for Oceanic History. His other books are 1941: Fighting the Shadow War, A Divided America in a World at War (Atlantic Monthly, 2016); The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta (PublicAffairs, 2009), and The Millionaires’ Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Power (PublicAffairs, 2006). A multi-prize-winning feature-length documentary based on The Millionaires’ Unit is available on streaming services.

The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived: Tom Watson Jr. and the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age (PublicAffairs), the first solo biography of the leader who launched the information technology revolution, will be published in October 2023. ​

As an award-winning freelance journalist, Marc has written for many publications, including Vanity Fair, Smithsonian, Rolling Stone, Time, and The Daily Beast. He has spoken to audiences around the country and has appeared on CNN, NPR, C-SPAN BookTV, History Channel, CuriosityStream and other broadcast and streaming outlets. He has taught at Princeton, Quinnipiac University and a college program at a maximum-security prison. He was the recipient of a New York Public Library Research Fellowship and was the 2014 Jalonick Memorial Distinguished Lecturer on Aviation History at the University of Texas Dallas. He is a fellow of Yale University’s Davenport College.Following college at Brown University, he received a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. He lives with his family in New Haven.

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